Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer

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Contents c 1 Satiric Advice SERIOUS O R NOT? 1 Warren S. Smith 2 “In a Different Guise” ROMAN EDUCATION AND GREEK RHETO RICAL THOUGHT ON MARRIAGE 26 Richard Hawley 3 Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce in Roman Comic Drama 39 Susanna Morton Braund 4 “The Cold Cares of Venus” LUCRETIUS AND ANTI-MARRIAGE LITERATURE 71 Warren S. Smith 5 Marriage and Gender in Ovid’s Erotodidactic Poetry 92 Karla Pollmann 6 Advice on Sex by the Self-Defeating Satirists HO RACE Sermones 1.2, JUVENAL Satire 6, AND ROMAN SATIRIC WRITING 111 Warren S. Smith 7 Chaste Artemis and Lusty Aphrodite THE PO RTRAIT OF WOMEN AND MARRIAGE IN THE GREEK AND LATIN NOVELS 129 Regine May 8 Dissuading from Marriage JEROME AND THE ASCETICIZATION OF SATIRE 154 Elizabeth A. Clark 9 Change and Continuity in Pagan and Christian (Invective) Thought on Women and Marriage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 182 Barbara Feichtinger 10 Walter as Valerius CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN IN THE Dissuasio 210 Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith 11 Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages 222 P. G. Walsh 12 The Wife of Bath and Dorigen Debate Jerome 243 Warren S. Smith Bibliography 271 Contributors 287 Index 289 Contents xiv ...